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What Does Vision Impairment Mean to Older People? |
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Vision Loss in Old Age -- The Need and Potential for New Beginnings |
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Part II. Epidemiology and Medical-Ophthalmological Research |
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An Examination of Secondary Conditions and Activity Limitations of Older People Experiencing Vision Impairment |
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27 | (6) |
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Blindness and Visual Impairment in Adults -- Population Based Survey |
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33 | (8) |
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Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Risk Factors |
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41 | (8) |
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Visual Impairment and Functional Deficits in Age-Related Macular Degeneration |
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49 | (12) |
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Part III. Psychosocial Issues and Daily Living Skills in Different Settings -- Empirical and Conceptual Contributions |
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Individual Support Needs of Older People with Serious Sight Loss |
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61 | (6) |
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The Psychological Impact of Visual Impairment in Patients of Different Age |
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67 | (10) |
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On the Long-Term Psychosocial Adaptation to Vision Loss in the Later Years |
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77 | (8) |
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Spanish Adaptation of the AVL Scale |
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85 | (8) |
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Age Specific Outcomes for ADL and IADL Performance and Independence Following Rehabilitative Interventions with Seniors Experiencing Visual Impairments |
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93 | (14) |
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Appreciation of Talking Way-Finding Systems by Visually Impaired People |
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107 | (10) |
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Vision and Outdoor Mobility of Older Adults in Two German Rural Settings |
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117 | (10) |
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Using Touch Instead of Vision -- Some Reflections on Possible Psychological Factors as Barriers or Facilitators to Developing Tactual Sensitivity |
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127 | (4) |
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Reading Ability in Low Vision Seniors |
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131 | (10) |
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Part IV. Intervention and Rehabilitation -- Empirical and Conceptual Contributions |
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Development and Evaluation of a Memory Training for Blind Seniors on Tape |
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141 | (8) |
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About the Necessity of Memory Training for Blind and Low Vision Seniors and their Training Opportunities in Germany |
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149 | (2) |
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Orientation and Mobility for Senior Citizens |
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151 | (6) |
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Physical Training Program at Home and its Effect on Gait |
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157 | (4) |
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Elementary Rehabilitation for Seniors Who Lose Sight Late in Life |
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161 | (8) |
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Rehabilitation for Visual Sharpness Through Scanning Pigmentary Retinosis |
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169 | (6) |
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Experiences of Conservative and Compensational Rehabilitation |
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175 | (6) |
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New Training Forms for Rehabilitation of Visual Cognitive Functions |
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181 | (4) |
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Rehabilitation of Disturbed Visual Function by Using Transcutaneal Electrostimulator |
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185 | (6) |
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Visual Rehabilitation for the Elderly. A Psychosocial Demand |
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191 | (4) |
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195 | (2) |
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Psychomotor Training with Visually Handicapped Senior Citizens |
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197 | (4) |
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Low Vision Counseling for Older Adults |
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201 | (4) |
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More Than Half of the Visually Impaired Seniors Also Have a Hearing Impairment |
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205 | (4) |
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Experiences with a Protocol for the Charles Bonnet Syndrome |
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209 | (6) |
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Structure of the Low Vision and Blindness in Latvia (1996--1998) |
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215 | (4) |
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A Guide for People with Age-Related Total Blindness |
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219 | (4) |
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Part V. Educational Issues -- Programs, Media, Self-Help and New Technologies |
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Acquired Vision Loss in Older People. Emotional Blockages to the Take Up of Services |
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223 | (8) |
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The Potential Usefulness of High-Tech Aids for Visually Impaired Seniors |
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231 | (8) |
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Accessibility and Usability of ICT (Information-Communication-Technology) for Older and Disabled People |
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239 | (6) |
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A Curriculum on Aging and Vision Loss for University Programs |
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245 | (8) |
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Visually Impaired Seniors Caring for Themselves and Others |
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253 | (4) |
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Visually Impaired Seniors Using Computers |
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257 | (6) |
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An Evaluation After Ten Years of Networking With Visually Impaired Elderly People Living on Their Own |
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263 | (10) |
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Part VI. Learning from Each Other in an International Perspective |
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The Provision of Services for Older People in the UK -- Thoughts on Achieving Resources |
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273 | (6) |
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Psychological Consequences of and Adaptation to Age Related Low Vision and Blindness: Low-Vision Project Kenya |
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279 | (6) |
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Visually Impaired Elderly: Importance of Family and the Community in Bangladesh |
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285 | (4) |
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Problems and Rehabilitation of Blind and Visually Impaired Seniors in Poland |
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289 | (4) |
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Publications of and for Visually Impaired Seniors in Germany |
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293 | (2) |
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Presentation of the Work for Elderly People of the Hamburg Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People |
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295 | (4) |
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Organisation of Low Vision Care at the 1st Eye Clinic Faculty Hospital (Brno, Czech Republic) |
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299 | (8) |
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Senior Citizen Homes in Germany and Vision Loss |
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307 | (4) |
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Nursing Homes for the Blind in Poland |
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311 | (6) |
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Care for Visually Impaired and Blind Seniors in Homes for the Elderly -- A Project in The Netherlands |
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317 | (6) |
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Part VII. Look into the Future |
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The Future of Geronto-Ophthalmology as Seen Through a Telescope |
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323 | (12) |
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On the Potential of New Media and New Technologies for Old Age in General and Visually Impaired Elders in Particular |
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335 | (12) |
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Vision 2020 -- The Right to Sight |
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347 | (4) |
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| Author Index |
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